Drum’n’bass is officially mainstream. From football matches to the supermarket, it’s almost impossible to move these days without hearing speakers pumping out those bassline tracks set to 174 beats per minute. And from Chase’n’Status to Rudimental via Kenya Grace, it’s enjoying chart success like never before.
But it hasn’t always been that way. The genre has come a long way from its roots, 30 years ago – and a new Spotify documentary is diving into that history. Titled DnB: In For Life, it’s an examination of drum’n’bass’s meteoric rise to success, from 1991, where Fabio and Grooverider started playing DnB at Rage; to 2003, when Pendulum’s tune Vault was being played at Glastonbury to thousands of rapturous crowds.
